DougBTX

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931.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Opera has been guessing which link to use as "next" for a long time, the feature is called "fast forward".
932.
by DougBTX 15y ago
> and tries to maximize dollars per unit. I've never really understood this line as applied to Apple, since I don't recall them dropping prices after the initial release. If they did I'd expect a "wait two months for the prices to drop"
933.
by DougBTX 15y ago
He's assuming that the designer has a fixed amount of time to work on the project, so less time spent faffing with pixel alignment means more time getting the design right in the first place. I suppose there is also the hidden assumption th
934.
by DougBTX 15y ago
I felt I had one hand tied behind my back That reminds me of the first few times I tried to learn vim.
935.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Hexadecimal numbers are a common way to represent colours, he can probably copy paste the colour numbers back and forth between code and an image editor. Using an existing image editor as a level editor must save time. It would get more com
936.
by DougBTX 15y ago
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/20/194236/Genome-Res... Not developing ideas, you say?
937.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Chrome is actually an interesting example, because the UI for find-on-page is identical to the one in iPad Pages - click on a spanner/wrench then on "Find...". It makes even less sense in other applications - "Find" is normally in the "Edit
938.
by DougBTX 15y ago
You... tap on a spanner, then a magnifying glass... http://www.tabletpcreview.com/shared/picture.asp?f=6024
939.
by DougBTX 15y ago
It says that "the device will be bundled with a data plan" so this is probably a subsidised price, regardless of the quality of the device.
940.
by DougBTX 15y ago
It would cut out two web requests too.
941.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Could you point me to a reference which says that? The best I can do straight off is Wikipedia: US Law: an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equival
942.
by DougBTX 15y ago
It's the other way around, you'll probably need a license for something to build a printer in private. Though since there are too many patents to read, you'll likely only know if you've infringed one once you release to the public and som
943.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Yes
944.
by DougBTX 15y ago
I was with you right up until you called it terrorism. The point of terrorism is political change through fear, this guy is just an asshole.
945.
by DougBTX 15y ago
The word you might be looking for is, "overqualified."
946.
by DougBTX 15y ago
The pattern is $scheme$salt$hash:password. "1" is the scheme, not the salt.
947.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Well, since they are bitcoin users: probably techies.
948.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Two giants? I'm not sure which you mean. iOS, sure. Microsoft has been in tablets for years, and HP has shrugged them off, rightly as far as Windows goes. It will be interesting once they make a tablet size version of the Metro UI. RIM's Pl
949.
by DougBTX 15y ago
> At the end of the day, it all depends on your developers. Sort of. In your WS example, if you had better developers then they could have defined the interface to accept Nullable<DateTime> instead of DateTime. So the language d
950.
by DougBTX 15y ago
A good quote from the Anders Hejlsberg (lead architect of C#) about nulls: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/178026/why-is-null-presen... For example, in the type system we do not have separation between value and reference types and nu
951.
by DougBTX 15y ago
You can use svn blame in Eclipse to do some of this. Instructions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223657/svn-blame-in-eclip... Screenshot: http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/informatics/index.php/Eclipse#... This will allow you to see co
952.
by DougBTX 15y ago
It does seem more like a bug in the JSON spec than anything else.
953.
by DougBTX 15y ago
My old MacBook had three screws in the way of the hard drive, which had a pull tab to make it easier to get out.
954.
by DougBTX 15y ago
Trying to apply logic to an illogical system is always going to be tricky.
955.
by DougBTX 16y ago
I don't know of any numbers to back it up, but I suspect that there are strong parallels to be drawn between the speed of someone scanning a web page, and the distance someone is from a poster.
956.
by DougBTX 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by exception driven development. The original code was trying to express that e.NewItem should be a Customer. In all the following code, it is still an error for e.NewItem to not be a Customer. The question is wha
957.
by DougBTX 16y ago
> He's neglecting the "critical mass" factor. See the "Every app is a special case" section.
958.
by DougBTX 16y ago
My thinking when I posted my comment above was that any diff format used in the repository could be treated as an "internal" format, and any actual merges that you perform could use any merge strategy that they like, as long as the commit c
959.
by DougBTX 16y ago
Are you mixing up garbage collection and reference counting? I can understand a suggestion to turn off garbage collection if you want to debug a non-garbage-collected, reference counted piece of code. Otherwise, a link to documentation whic
960.
by DougBTX 16y ago
Worth noting that an autoreleased object which you haven't retained will have a ref count of 1, so they are not an exception to the "freed when the ref count is zero" idea.

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